Crawling leaves: photosynthesis in sacoglossan sea slugs
Some species of sacoglossan sea slugs can maintain functional chloroplasts from specific algal food sources in the cells of their digestive diverticula. These 'stolen' chloroplasts (kleptoplasts) can survive in the absence of the plant cell and continue to photosynthesize, in some cases fo...
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| Texto completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23935 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:ria.ua.pt:10773/23935 |